Eating Quotes

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

François de la Rochefoucauld

Face your stuff, don’t stuff your face.

Andrea Chermus

Hunger is not an emergency.

Kathleen Searles

The first and last bite of something tastes exactly the same…no matter how many bites are taken in between.

Beth Lutton

Eat healthy day and night, to keep your future looking bright.

Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the ability to enjoy food more without overeating.

Joel Fuhrman

Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.

John H Tobe

Never starving, never stuffed.

Danielle Omar

Front load your energy.

Judy Simon

Your next meal is the best time to make a better choice.

Danielle Omar

Downsize portion size, supersize common sense.

Jennifer Neily

Those who don’t take time to eat healthy now, may have to make time for an illness later.

Janelle Dietze

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.

Chinese Proverb

Appreci-eat.

The primary reason diseases tend to run in families may be that diets tend to run in families.

Michael Greger

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Benjamin Franklin

Processed foods not only extend the shelf life, but they extend the waistline as well.

Karen Sessions

It’s not about deprivation, but liberation through moderation.

Jennifer Neily

Better to pay the grocer than the doctor, or the farmer than the pharmacist.

If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.

Michael Pollan

Let things taste of what they are.

Alice Waters

Eating not so great food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment.

The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.

Ann Wigmore

We know that food is a medicine, perhaps the most powerful drug on the planet with the power to cause or cure most disease.

Mark Hyman

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Maimonides

Some people think the plant-based whole food diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

Caldwell Esselstyn

What you eat in private you wear in public.

If you’re going to eat healthily do it because you love your life and want to live for a long time, do it for those reasons, as opposed to doing it out of a fear of illness.

Anita Mooriani

If there is a health food section in the grocery store, what does that make the rest of the food?

Mark Hyman

To maintain health, fruit and fresh vegetables must be the fundamental part of our food.

Mahatma Gandhi

Others live to eat, but I eat to live.

Socrates

Don’t ever repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

Eat little, my friend Sancho, and even less at supper, for the stomach is the place where good health and life are forged.

Don Quixote

Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food.

Hippocrates

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 10:31

In good eating there is happiness.

Apicius

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Agatha Christie

If in a hurry, don’t eat faster, eat less but chew better.

Ellen G White

Eat food that expires.

At mealtimes, cast off care and anxious thought; do not feel hurried, but eat slowly and with cheerfulness, with your heart filled with gratitude to God for all His blessings.

Ellen G White

Abandon added fats and add abandoned vegetables.

Michael Greger

Health of body and vigour of mind is more dependant on the food we eat, than on any one thing.

L Coleman

Be simple in your diet.

Q Tubero

Mark what and how great blessings flow from a frugal diet; in the first place, though enjoyest good health.

Horace

Eat not immoderately.

Pythagoras

What you get back from your body depends on what you put into your body.

Seek food rather than avoid it.

You need to tie off the sack before it’s full.

German Expression

If you’re not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you’re probably not hungry.

The banquet is in the first bite.

There are few who realize as they should how much their habits of diet have to do with their health, their character, their usefulness in this world, and their eternal destiny.

Ellen G White

If you don’t put it in your trolley, you won’t put it in your mouth.

Place a bouquet of flowers on the table and everything will taste twice as good.

Michael Pollan

Better to go to waste than to waist.

Leave something on your plate.

Relish plain food.

Ellen G White

Treat treats as treats.

Food is the most widely abused anxiety drug and exercise is the most potent underutilised anti-depressant.

Meat is the biggest weight gaining food.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

Jose Rizal

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Ovid

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

Ellen G White

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle change.

It is the doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquility.

Samuel Johnson

No labels on the table.

Surfeit confounds the memory.

Galen

To live well and frugally is to live temperately, and shun surfeiting.

Plato

Hunger is the best sauce.

Shall we give to the sick that which has made them sick, that which will keep them sick if they continue to use it as food?

Ellen G White

Surfeit is the readiest means to procure sickness, and sickness is the chastisement of intemperate diet.

Le Brun

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

Ellen G White

The longer the shelf life…the shorter yours.

Suffice nature, but surfeit not; supply the body’s needs, but offend not; for moderate diet is the wise man’s cognizance, but surfeiting is a fool’s chiefest glory.

St Ephraim

Gluttony kills more than the sword.

S Butler

Never be ashamed to say No thank you; I do not eat meat. I have conscientious scruples against eating the flesh of dead animals.

Ellen G White

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.

Shakespeare

Selfishness rules the appetite of the glutton.

Goldoni

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

Psalms 22:26

It is not well to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal. If the digestion is feeble, the use of both will often cause distress, and inability to put forth mental effort.

Ellen G White

We should look for someone to eat with, before looking for something to eat and drink.

Epicurus

Drink your food, chew your drink.

Indian Proverb

A glutton lives like a beast, and digs his grave with his teeth.

Cervantes

Never abuse the stomach by overeating, but do not deprive yourself of the wholesome, palatable food that health demands.

Ellen G White

Hunger is the best ingredient.

To eat or drink till a man is surfeited is going beyond the natural desire in quantity; for the object of desire is the satisfying of our wants.

Aristotle

Eating raw is like telling your food: I love you the way you are.

Mumma Raw

Eat light at night.

More die of food than famine.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

George Bernard Shaw

Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

Ecclesiastes 10:17

Gluttony and luxurious living are followed with shame, but temperance and frugality with commendation.

Plato

The wicked man liveth to eat, but the good man eateth to live.

Socrates

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Xenophon

You are what you eat.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Ellen G White

Eating and drinking not only maintain life, but are the cause of death.

Homer

Gluttony fatteth the body, maketh the mind dull and unapt; nay, which is worse, undermineth reason.

W Kennedy

The rule is never to eat or do anything from the mere impulse of pleasure.

Gorgia Liontino

Eating to repletion is bad; but what we eat should be good of its kind.

S S Fitch

Through a surfeit in eating, wisdom is hindered, and the understanding is darkened.

Alphonse

All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

Ellen G White

In eating it is a great fault for a man to be ignorant of the measure of his own stomach.

Seneca

Moderate eating is the wise man’s cognizance; but surfeiting epicurism is a fool’s chief glory.

F Ogier

Some eat as if they were to die tomorrow, but furnish their houses as if they were to live forever.

Empedocles

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by the superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.

R Burton

The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavour, but in yourself.

Horace

Eat not for the pleasure thou mayest find there-in; eat to increase thy strength; eat to preserve the life which thou hast received from Heaven.

Confucius

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

Diogenes

There is no proper and peculiar seed of diseases, but the corruptions of those things within us which we eat, and the faults and errors we commit against them.

Plutarch

When we eat we must remember we have two guests to entertain, the body and the soul; whatsoever the body hath departs away quickly, but what the soul receiveth abideth forever.

Isodorus

If we make the stomach a cemetery of food, the body will soon become the sepulchre of the soul.

Chatfield

A great feast often furnishes employment for many doctors.

Aubrey C Price

He who aims to be a man of complete virtue, in his food does not seek to gratify his appetite.

Confucius

The best living must be that which is most conducive to health; for without health all other temporal blessings are vain.

G Mogridge